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catch of the week // CAROLINE BLAIR
our weekly peek at a fish in the KU sea.
What would be your ideal date?
I don't know if this really counts as a "date," but I always thought it would be really fun to travel with a person I'm interested in.
What are your main hobbies?
What are your main hobbies?
I just love, love, love to read. And I also write piano music.
Favorite quote?
"I feel too much." — Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close [a novel by Jonathan Safran Foer].
Favorite food?
Sushi!
What is a major turn off?
Conceitedness. People who are overly pretentious tend to make me feel uncomfortable. I went on a date once with this guy that just wanted to go on and on about himself. I'm sure he was just trying to convince me that he was smart, but I just felt like he was more interested in talking about himself than talking to me.
Major turn on?
Intelligence. I'm attracted to people that I could potentially learn lots of interesting information from.
What's the first thing you notice about someone?
What kind of energy that person gives off, and how he or she must be feeling at the moment.
Dream job?
I'm going to school so I can make my dream job come true! I'm going to teach students with disabilities.
Where do you like to get away?
When I'm stressed out I just like to retreat to my bedroom, pet my kitten and put my abnormal energies into some song writing.
// HAILEY OSTERHAUS
all great relationships had to start somewhere.
how we met // SHANE NICKELS AND DHYANA COIL
From across the room at a party, Shane Nickels, Hutchinson graduate student, saw the girl he was told to never go near. His friends said she was a tease and if he chose to talk to her, he'd be making a mistake. All of their warnings were simply forgotten when Nickels and the mysterious girl, Dhyana Coil, 2008 graduate, instantly clicked.
Coil went to the party that night with no intention of meeting anyone. "I was feeling pretty jaded about love during the time when I met him as a result of being hurt a lot in the past," Coil says. "I began to treat relationships like more of a game and a power play and be much more closed off."
But Nickels knew that there was something more to Coil and pursued her by asking her for a date at a hookah bar.
The relationship seemed permanent the night KU won the championship. She had to work late and could only check up on the game on her computer. While she was slaving away at work, she misunderstood Nickels and thought she wasn't invited to join him and his friends after the game ... and then his phone died. "So he ran about 20 blocks across town to
come find me and make me feel better and tell me of course I was invited and held my hand as we walked down to Mass. Street to celebrate," Coil says.
Soon, Coil and Nickels will be celebrating their two-and-a-half-year anniversary. "We're really in it for the long haul," Nickels says. "We've looked at engagement rings for fun, but we're really happy where we are right now and we're not rushing things."
// HAILEY OSTERHAUS
Contributed photo
Testing the tease. Friends warned Shane Nickels, Hutchinson graduate student, away from Dhiana Coil, 2008 graduate. Nickels sparked a conversation anyway and they've now been together more than two years.
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five questions // AUDRA BOXBERGER AND MIRAH two people. five questions. see how they stack up. // HAILEY OSTERHAUS
MIRAH is an indie-folk singer-songwriter based in Portland, Ore. She was in Lawrence last weekend, when she played at the Jackpot Music Hall. Her newest album, (a)spera, was released in March.
Mary Oliver, Patti Smith, Yoko Ono, many more. I don't believe in favorites.
Speak every language.
Enlightenment. Or, wait — how about an excellent sense of humor.
I would never ask myself that question as answering it would push all other contenders for the position either up or down. And any more responding with my thoughts about this question would require me to use the word achievement over and over and then the word would start sounding too weird to even be a good thing at all. Better to just leave it alone.
It's OK here.
WHO ARE YOUR FAVORITE AUTHORS? POETS? ARTISTS?
IF YOU COULD LEARN HOW TO DO ANYTHING IN SECONDS, WHAT WOULD IT BE?
WHAT IS SOMETHING THAT YOU FEEL
YOU HAVEN'T ACHIEVED IN YOUR LIFE
SO FAR?
WHAT DO YOU FEEL IS ONE OF YOUR GREATEST ACHIEVEMENTS?
IF YOU COULD BE ANYWHERE RIGHT NOW, WHEREWOULDITBE?
AUDRA BOXBERGER , Olathe junior, speech-language-bearing major
I'd learn another language. Wait — is there a limit? Can I learn like five or 12?
Barbra Kingsolver, Emily Dickinson — cliche?, Dave Bazan
World peace. Seriously.Want to join my revolution?
I was raised in Johnson County and still somehow manage to be a relatively stable, healthy and intelligent person.
Seattle, Seoul, Scandinavia, South Africa. Sydney. You know, whatever.
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